INDEX 



Accounts, 335 



Advertising, ways of, 336 



Aerial birds, 23 



Agricultural Colleges, addresses, 



342 

 Alfalfa, 238 

 Alternating yards, 155 

 Ancona, 55 

 Andalusian, 79 

 Appetite, importance of, 266 

 Aquatic birds, 19 

 Artificial hatching, definition, 122 

 Aseel fowl, 35 

 Ash, in bird's body, 212 



in feeds, 231 



for laying hens, 257 

 Assimilation, definition, 218 



organs of, 221 

 Association with poultry, 80 

 Atavism, 87 

 Aves, or birds, 15 



Baby chicks, method of shipping, 

 291 

 profits from, 279 

 seasons for, 279 

 Bantams, 79 

 Barley, 229 

 Beet pulp, 230 



Beets, mangel, home-grown, 237 

 Beheading, method of, 286 

 Belle of Jersey, record of, 252 

 Bird, parts of, 353 

 Birds, aerial, 23 



and animal life, 15 



aquatic, 19 



and bird life, 15 



classification of, 19 



composition of, 211 



definition of, 15 



description of, 16 



feeding, 30 



references on, 33 



and success, 13 



terrestrial, 22 



Blood spots, 283 

 Bluebird's nest and eggs, 26 

 Bone, products of, 225 

 Books of reference, 340 

 Boys' and Girls' Poultry Clubs, 8 

 objects of, 10 

 present development 



of, 9 

 records and rules 

 for, 343 

 Brahma, 62 



Bran and middlings (wheat), 227 

 Breed, definition, 37 



selecting, 45 

 Breeding, definition, 84 



for egg production, 88 



factors ■affecting, 85 



laws of, 86 



for meat, 90 



pedigree, 91 



problems of mating, 84 



selling birds for, 279 



for size, 90 



stock, care of, 104 

 Breeds, classification of, 38 



development of, 36 



utility classification, 38 

 Broiler production, 276 



seasons for, 275 

 Broilers, definition, 275 



feeding of, 263 

 Brooder, clucks, feeding of, 243 



houses, kinds of, 133 



operation of, 136 



points of, 133 



putting chicks in, 137 

 Broodiness, of egg breeds, 50 



of general purpose breeds, 70 



of meat breeds, 61 

 Brooding, dangers in, 140 



definition, 133 



fresh air for, 140 



temperature for, 138 

 Buckwheat, 228, 236 

 Buildings, arrangement of, 159 

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